Microsoft Outlook
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Email and calendar

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Description

Outlook lets you bring all your email accounts and calendars in one convenient spot. Whether it's staying on top of your inbox or scheduling the next big thing, we make it easy to be your most productive, organized, and connected self.

Here's what you'll love about Outlook for iOS:

- Focus on the right things with our smart inbox - we help you sort between messages you need to act on straight away and everything else.

- Swipe to quickly schedule, delete and archive messages.

- Share your meeting availability with just a tap and easily find times to meet with others.

To make an in-app purchase of an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription, open the app, go to Settings, and tap on Upgrade next to your Outlook.com or Hotmail.com account. Subscriptions begin at $6.99 a month in the US, and can vary by region. With an Office 365 subscription, you get 1TB of storage for each user, access to all features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, and you can install Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote on PCs or Macs.

Office 365 subscriptions purchased from the app will be charged to your iTunes account and will automatically renew within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period, unless auto-renewal is disabled beforehand. To manage your subscriptions or to disable auto-renewal, after purchase, go to your iTunes account settings. A subscription cannot be cancelled during the active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.

What’s New

This update includes performance improvements and bug fixes to make Outlook better for you.

Feel free to send us any comments or questions through our in-app support in Settings – we’d love to hear from you.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5

1.2M Ratings

1.2M Ratings

JPdarling9
, 10/01/2018

Great app, but isolated from iOS

I really like the integration of the outlook app with Outlook on my Windows 10 PC, OWA and my Mac. The experience and functionality are very similar between platforms which make it easy for me to switch between them and still be productive.

My biggest problem with the Outlook on iOS though is that it’s completely isolated from the rest of iOS. I understand there are some limitations with this, and maybe some more so on the SDK side of things rather than Microsoft’s, but it’s a bit frustrating that when I try to make a call directly from Phone, I don’t have the option to search through my outlook contacts. Or that when I see an email address on a website that I’m not presented with an option to write that email within the Outlook App. I’m able to share the ‘mailto:...’ link to a blank email in outlook, but cannot compose an email to that email address.

The same extends for calendar. I would love to be able to see my calendar events from outlook in the calendar app, just as a kind of unifying calendar app. I know that I can setup my Office 365 account within the accounts pane in settings, but then I’m defeating the purpose of using outlook.

MWE44
, 04/10/2019

Updates have ruined Outlook for Apple Watch

The most recent updates have taken Outlook from the best (as in fastest and most efficient) email app for Apple Watch to quite possibly the worst. The app is incredibly slow, it sometimes takes hours for emails to update. Further, prior to the recent updates the app used to have text at the bottom of the main menu telling you either when your inbox was last updated/refreshed or that it was currently updating, allowing you to know for sure whether the emails you were viewing were in fact up to the moment. After the updates, there is no text informing you of last update, which is particularly bad when combined with how slow the app now is—at any moment that you’re looking at emails on the watch, it is virtually impossible to know if what you are seeing is up to date, or if there are ten more emails in queue that you’re not yet seeing because of the slowness of the app.

Another change for the worse: you used to be able to tap notifications of new emails and they would take you straight to that email in the outlook app. Now, you tap a notification and it takes you to the main menu of outlook, where you encounter the same issues of slowness and not knowing when the emails were last updated.

In sum, your latest series of updates have taken Outlook from being the absolute best email app for Apple Watch to now being considerably worse than Apple Mail, which itself isn’t very good. Why mess with a good thing?

Mongoos150
, 10/10/2018

Excellent.

I can’t believe i’m writing this about a Microsoft app, for the iPhone no less, but this is the best iOS email client i’ve ever used. I’ve used almost all of them, including Gmail extensively.

The BEST thing about this app? Focused Inbox. Outlook quickly learns who is important and who isn’t, and delivers notifications only for the “focused inbox” (unless you have it configured otherwise). Gmail has a version of this but its not as simple and clear-cut as Focused Inbox on outlook. I’d never realized how much time I’d spent paying attention to email notifications that didn’t require attention (receipts, work emails from other departments) - and how Outlook has streamlined my focus by reducing the number of notifications I receive.

Outlook for iOS is streamlined to handle multiple accounts super well, including custom notifications per account, calendar account integration (for event creation when email content includes a date or time). The notifications themselves are even better than Mail / Gmail on iOS, allowing me to archive, reply or mark as read from the banner pull-down, without ever needing to enter the app. Even the sounds are better. I’m a believer. Gold standard.